On Monday 10 August 2009 02:55:13 pm Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Scott Bennett<benn...@cs.niu.edu> wrote: > [snip] > > > business-class service, but it seems unlikely to be any cheaper. > > Verizon's residential service does not currently have a cap, but I don't > > know whether they prohibit listening on ports accessable from the > > Internet. > > VZN's residential AUP prohibits "servers" along with a number of other > offensive prohibitions which they don't currently enforce. (For > example, you're prohibited from using your VZN broadband for anything > "sexually explicit"). > > As I recall the business FiOS AUP had it's own set of ridiculous > terms... but it didn't attempt to prohibit you from running "servers".
AUPs are rarely enforced. They are there so they can cut you off if/when someone complains or you do something to annoy them. In any case, I would run my servers regardless of their AUP. NO ONE tells me I cannot run sshd or any other of what I consider personally critical apps. They also don't get to tell me not to run a tor relay. -- “We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of great wealth in the hands of the few. We cannot have both.” — Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice, 1916-1939